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"View From the Top": Gwyneth Paltrow glows in a light airplane comedy that's actually funny.; By Stephanie Zacharek Mar 21, 2003
The gleeful contrarian: Not content with pushing buttons at Arts & Letters Daily, Denis Dutton now plans to shake up the publishing industry.; By Ray Sawhill Nov 3, 2000
Who ya gonna call? Patent busters!: BountyQuest CEO Charles Cella explains why his Web site is offering cash to patent destroyers.; By Damien Cave Oct 23, 2000
ICANN-oclast: Get ready for a shake-up: Radical Karl Auerbach just got elected to the Internet's top governing body.; By Damien Cave Oct 16, 2000
The Mojo solution: Forget Napster and Gnutella. Jim McCoy's Mojo Nation is the coolest file-trading service on the Net.; By Damien Cave Oct 9, 2000
World wide webcam: In Garland Simon's future, everyone and everything will be on camera, all the time.; By Damien Cave Oct 2, 2000
Defanging Carnivore: A security specialist explains why his open-source version of the FBI's snooping technology is a victory for privacy fans.; By Sean Dugan Sep 25, 2000
Cheap at the price: Earthlink's founder, Sky Dayton, explains why spending $7.5 million for the business.com domain name was a smart deal.; By Damien Cave Sep 18, 2000
When Big Brother knows you watch "Big Brother": TiVo helps you find and record TV shows it thinks you'll like, and shares your viewing habits with networks and advertisers.; By Damien Cave Sep 11, 2000
The Michael Jordan of gaming: Dennis "Thresh" Fong leaves the deathmatch arena to try his hand at building a business.; By David Kushner Sep 5, 2000
Information just wants to be Freenet: Rob Kramer and Ian Clarke's new venture, Uprizer, wants to be the Red Hat of peer-to-peer networks. What's behind their wall of secrecy?; By Damien Cave Aug 28, 2000
Why Scour is not the new Napster: Dan Rodrigues defends his multimedia search engine, even as it faces a nasty lawsuit.; By Damien Cave Aug 22, 2000
We're no dot-com!: Critical Path has faced stock drops and layoffs, but CEO Doug Hickey won't be lumped in with the losers.; By Damien Cave Aug 14, 2000
E-book 'em!: AtRandom publisher Jonathan Karp is looking for literary revelation -- and mass readership -- from digital books.; By Janelle Brown Aug 8, 2000
Watermarks in music?: Talal Shamoon, a key technologist for the Secure Digital Music Initiative, says that he's found the key to protecting copyrighted tunes.; By Damien Cave Jul 31, 2000
I want my own .tv: The CEO of a company that administers the domain name for the island nation of Tuvalu thinks it could be more profitable than .com.; By Damien Cave Jul 24, 2000
A Napster lawsuit laid to rest: Rob Reid shelved Listen.com's legal action, but he says it'll take an act of Congress to resolve the digital music tug of war.; By Janelle Brown Jul 17, 2000
Britain's first software billionaire: At Autonomy, Mike Lynch creates programs that act like people do, analyzing words and extracting ideas.; By Wendy M. Grossman Jul 10, 2000
Aliens: The sequel: A tale of off-world visitation gave USWeb founder Joe Firmage no end of trouble -- but he's still alive, kicking and raising gobs of venture capital for his latest crusade.; By Janelle Brown Jul 5, 2000
Easy coder: Martin Tobias' film about a cross-country Harley ride prompted another journey -- into multimedia encoding.; By Damien Cave Jun 26, 2000
It's the dream life: Peter Lund, formerly CEO of CBS, teams up with self-help guru Tony Robbins to build an online audience of people who want to be their best.; By Damien Cave Jun 19, 2000
A hitchhiker in the new economy: At h2g2.com, Douglas Adams is trying to make his guide to the galaxy come to life.; By Janelle Brown Jun 12, 2000
Dot-com servitude: "Will work for options" was the motto that built the new economy, but mylackey.com's Brian McGarvey takes it to new extremes. Housecleaning anyone?; By Damien Cave Jun 5, 2000
Napster at law: Attorney-turned-interim CEO Hank Barry promises to make money, not war, for the beleaguered music-swapping service.; By Damien Cave May 30, 2000
Camera on a chip: Photobit CEO Sabrina Kemeny's tiny image sensors will bring us "Get Smart"-style watches and cellphones that take snapshots.; By Mark Compton May 22, 2000

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